A wildfire burning south of Paris may have been deliberately set, France’s interior minister said Wednesday, as two people were arrested near the suspected origin point. Hundreds of hectares of forest have burned and more than 1,200 residents have been evacuated from surrounding villages.
UNICEF warns that 3.7 million Afghan children under five are at heightened risk of life-threatening malnutrition as the peak wasting season approaches. Funding shortfalls and collapsed services are pushing the crisis toward a breaking point.
Mathieu Van der Poel sprinted to his third Tour de France stage win on Sunday, beating Tobias Johannessen and Tom Pidcock after race officials shortened the route due to extreme heat. The Dutch classics specialist showed once again that his power translates far beyond the cobbled spring races.
Cheap AI-guided drones are destroying tanks at a rate that’s forcing a reckoning across NATO defence ministries. Is armoured warfare facing its cavalry moment?
The UN’s top peace official has warned the Security Council that strikes on Iran have shattered critical oversight of its nuclear programme. Rosemary DiCarlo said the international community is now flying blind on one of the world’s most sensitive security issues.
Diplomats from 12 countries joined a UN-facilitated virtual field visit to a Gaza displacement site, hearing directly from residents about critical shortages. The unprecedented session reflects growing efforts to bridge the access gap blocking international observers from entering the territory.
UN investigators are pushing Syria’s transitional authorities to trace thousands of disappeared detainees after a week-long visit covering bomb attacks, prison conditions and vigilante violence. The findings signal growing international pressure on Damascus over accountability.
The UN marked the Srebrenica genocide Thursday as survivors recalled the terror of July 1995, when more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed. Thirty years on, hundreds of victims remain unidentified and denial persists.
A Ukrainian operative charged with murdering Anastasiia Berezovska has reversed key parts of his testimony, upending a trial tied to a Monaco bomb plot. The dramatic shift comes as forensic evidence is set to be presented next month.
Kylian Mbappé scored twice as France produced a dominant 4-1 victory over Iraq in their World Cup 2026 opener in Kansas City — a match delayed nearly 90 minutes by a severe thunderstorm. It was the kind of performance that sends a warning to every other team in the tournament.
